The Principles of Practice

At the same time that I started graduate school in psychology, I also
picked up rock climbing. I’m not a natural athlete, but I found the mix of
physical challenge and adrenalin fun. In retrospect, I also think I liked
climbing because it is so much simpler than psychotherapy. Like therapy,
climbing presents a never-ending series of incremental challenges.
However, unlike therapy, the results of climbing are very easy to assess:
you either make it to the top, or you don’t. There is never debate or
confusion about success or failure.